Young Goodman Brown's Hero's Journey Young Goodman Brown follows the hero's journey in the story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The hero's journey is a common throughline of events that many writers use in stories to show the physical, mental, and/or emotional transformation that the main character or protagonist undergoes throughout the story. It begins with a call to adventure and supernatural help. A path of trials and a symbolic death then follows. Ultimately, the character has a moment of epiphany or realization and then a comeback. Hawthorne uses all of this to show the loss of innocence in Young Goodman Brown as he experiences the hero's journey. Young Goodman Brown is about a newly married young man who leaves his wife, Faith, and goes on a trip into the forest one night. Young Goodman Brown has an innocent and perhaps even naive soul and was considered by the townspeople to be a "silly fellow" (Hawthorne 83). He is accompanied by a mysterious, older man who is later revealed to be the devil. As they walk, young Goodman Brown tries to turn around several times and at one point manages to shake off the devil. However, when he sees that even his wife has surrendered to the same evil path as him, he stops resisting and continues into the forest. He finds himself at a witches' sabbath where he sees familiar faces of people he previously admired for spiritual guidance; he also finds Faith there and becomes devastated. In the end, he screams to resist the devil and then wakes up alone in the forest. The call to adventure comes when young Goodman Brown decides to go out into the forest that night. We do not know exactly what the motivation is, other than that it is an “evil goal” (81). It could be assumed, however, that young Goodman Brown had doubts about his faith in God and was curious about this mysterious event taking place that night. It also seemed that young Goodman Brown had been thinking about it for a while and had settled on it for that night as it seemed he had an appointment with the other traveler when he was told he was fifteen late minutes. The Other Traveler is the supernatural aid element of the Hero's Journey.